Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in a bid to placate a restive coalition ally without further aggravating a dispute with Washington.
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian-American youth during clashes on Friday, the U.S. State Department said, calling for a quick and transparent investigation.
Plans for new settlements in East Jerusalem pose a threat to peace and Israel's relations with the European Union, the 28-member bloc said on Friday, joining the United States in its criticism of the decision.
Nine Japanese nationals have joined Islamic State, Japan's former air force chief, Toshio Tamogami, quoted a senior Israeli government official as saying, but the government's top spokesman said on Friday it had not confirmed the information.
Palestinian factions met in Cairo on Wednesday for two days of talks aimed at mending a rift that could threaten Egyptian-mediated negotiations to turn the Gaza ceasefire into a lasting truce.
Israel's high court on Monday outlawed a detention center where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months.
The leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza "by Islamic law", in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection.
In late January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on companies and investors from all over the world to use Israel as a global research and development center, pointing the uniqueness of the country's inherent strengths within science and technology.
Israel's security forces last week discovered an underground tunnel linking Gaza and Israel, which was expected to facilitate a terror attack or kidnapping attempt inside the country, the army said on Sunday
An Israeli security guard shot and killed a fellow Israeli man in Jerusalem, beside the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Reuters reported. The site was immediately shut to visitors following the shooting.
Israeli Defense Minister Minister Moshe Yaalon said that a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria amounted to a "threat," indicated that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery, the Associated Press reported. A top Russian official said on Tuesday that the planned sale of S-3000 air-defense missiles to the Assad pro-Syrian government forces remain committed to the deal.
Four people were killed, and one was seriously wounded on Monday after a man opened fire in a bank in the souther Israel town, Ha'Aretz reported. The gunman identified as Itamar Alon committed suicide after holding a woman hostage during a shootout with police.
President Barack Obama said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a "game-changer," demanding action from the international community. The president stressed that the U.S. and other nations are still determining whether those weapons were used.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, even as he contends the Islamic Republic is about a year away from developing it. Obama is due to arrive in the Jewish State next Wednesday.
Israel has partially lifted a gag order over the investigation an Australian-Israeli dual citizen who died in an Israeli prison. Ben Zygier, a Mossad spy agent reportedly gave Australian intelligence details of his work, leading to his arrest.
